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Clear-cutting more harmful to mushrooms than forest fires, Finnish study finds

5 July 20195 July 2019 Yle News 0 Comments forest fires, forests, mushrooms, nature, wildfires, wildlife

Commercial clear-felling of trees is more harmful to fungi than forest fires, according to a recent doctoral thesis published at

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Study on Swedish wildfires shows how to make forests rise from the ashes

31 May 201931 May 2019 Lisen Elowson Tosting and Loukas Christodoulou, Radio Sweden 0 Comments forest fires, forestry, forests, nature, Västmanland, wildfires

Fire has destroyed tens of thousands of hectares of forest in Sweden in recent years, and now landowners are learning

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Moose migration in northern Sweden makes for “contemplative” slow TV

17 April 201918 April 2019 David Russell, Radio Sweden 0 Comments moose, nature, Northern Sweden, Slow TV, Télévision, wildlife

They have been travelling the same journey, waiting for the ice to melt, for 9,000 years. The elks or moose

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Swedish tourist industry worries about cuts to trail maintenance

29 March 201929 March 2019 Frank Radosevich, Radio Sweden 0 Comments nature, outdoors, parks, tourism

After scheduled repairs were shelved due to budget cuts, the Swedish Tourist Association is calling on the government to restore

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Glacier melt in Arctic Canada exposes plants frozen under ice for 40,000 years

30 January 2019 Jamie Malbeuf, CBC News 0 Comments Baffin Island, global warming, ice, nature, Nunavut

Melting ice caps are exposing plants on Baffin Island, Nunavut that have been frozen for more than 40,000 years, according

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Finland’s environment suffering from human activity, report says

18 December 2018 Yle News 0 Comments Baltic Sea, climate change, ecosystems, endangered species, forests, nature, SYKE

The status of natural habitats in Finland has continued to deteriorate over the past decade with 48% of the nearly

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Woman, 10-month-old daughter killed by bear at remote cabin in northwest Canada

28 November 201830 November 2018 Paul Tukker, CBC News 0 Comments bear attack, bears, grizzly bear, nature, Yukon

A Yukon woman and her 10-month-old daughter are dead after a bear attack at a remote cabin, the territory’s coroner

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U.S. Supreme Court justices wrestle how to set Alaska hovercraft case apart from subsistence

14 November 2018 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, fishing, John Sturgeon, legal, nature, rivers, Supreme Court

Last week, the U.S Supreme Court again heard arguments in a case that pits the mission of the National Park

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Photographer tells how he snapped picture of rare white bear cub in Finland

8 October 20185 October 2018 Yle News 0 Comments bears, nature, photography, wildlife

A photo of a rare white-furred bear cub taken by an aspiring young nature photographer, Niilo Isotalo, has gained widespread

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Binding agreement on Arctic fisheries moratorium officially signed by EU and nine countries

3 October 20185 October 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Arctic Ocean, fisheries, fishing, indigenous, Inuit, nature, oceans

Canada, the European Union and eight other countries signed Wednesday a legally binding international accord that will protect nearly three

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Gold mining in northern Finland hurts reindeer, says Natural Resources Institute

19 September 201821 September 2018 Yle News 0 Comments animals, indigenous, Lapland, mining, natural resources, nature, reindeer, reindeer herding, Saami, Sami

Gold mining in Lapland (northern Finland) is causing more ecological problems than a local association has reported, according to the

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Finland’s national parks popular despite poor maintenance

13 September 2018 Yle News 0 Comments conservation, Infrastructure, Metsähallitus, national parks, nature, parks, tourism

Finnish national parks are in high demand, but about a third of their paths are in moderate or serious disrepair,

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WWF urges Norway to protect its Arctic forests to help fight climate change

11 September 201814 September 2018 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments boreal forests, climate change, conservation, emissions, forests, nature, Pasvik

The boreal forest is even more crucial for the world to store carbon than the tropical rainforest. At 68°N, Europe’s

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New study predicts ‘radical re-shaping’ of Arctic landscape by 2100

7 September 201825 September 2018 Emily Blake, CBC News 0 Comments Alaska, climate change, global warming, nature, plants

A new study is revealing just how much greener and warmer the Arctic is expected to be by the end

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National Geographic polar bear apology proves colonialist attitudes towards Inuit remain, say northerners

17 August 201817 August 2018 Emily Blake, CBC News 0 Comments animals, climate change, conservation, indigenous, Inuit, Leo Ikakhik, Madeleine Redfern, National Geographic, nature, Nunavut, polar bears, SeaLegacy, subsistence hunting

One year after a controversial video that linked an emaciated polar bear to climate change, National Geographic has published an

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